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Episode 196: The Circle of Lice

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Hakuna Matata.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about home pest control, misleading beef jerky, and becoming a more conservative electronics consumer.

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0:00.0

Hello. Good morning. Good morning. How is it?

0:05.0

I'm all over there. Everything. It's very well.

0:08.0

I've decided to become solarists.

0:12.0

Solarists. Good morning. Good morning.

0:16.0

Got an email.

0:18.0

Last day.

0:19.0

A late yesterday telling me that

0:21.0

Lice is in our classroom now.

0:26.0

And that the classroom itself is being

0:28.0

thoroughly cleaned as we speak.

0:33.0

So you're taking any precautions?

0:35.0

Can you? I want to.

0:39.0

I don't know. I don't know how far to get into it.

0:41.0

Let's just say Lice is a thing. It can be a thing.

0:44.0

Yeah.

0:45.0

Yeah.

0:47.0

And you can realize I hear.

0:50.0

Maybe I saw this on Reddit.

0:52.0

That you can have Lice in your home child

0:56.0

for a while and not even know it.

0:58.0

It turns out. Oh, really?

1:01.0

Yeah. I mean, you know, here's the thing.

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